{"id":70934,"date":"2026-04-05T17:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/fuel-tanker-erupts-in-flames-after-toppling-power-lines-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:55:42","slug":"fuel-tanker-erupts-in-flames-after-toppling-power-lines-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/fuel-tanker-erupts-in-flames-after-toppling-power-lines-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel tanker erupts in flames after toppling power lines in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driver treated for burns after truck was carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline at time of collision outside Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>An 18-wheel fuel tanker crashed into another vehicle, toppled power lines, then burst into flames outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fort-worth\">Fort Worth<\/a> early Sunday morning, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline at the time of the collision.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/05\/fuel-tanker-collision-fire-fort-worth-tx\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver treated for burns after truck was carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline at time of collision outside Fort Worth An 18-wheel fuel tanker crashed into another vehicle, toppled power lines, then burst into flames outside Fort Worth early Sunday morning, according to local authorities. The truck was carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline at the time &#8230; <a title=\"Fuel tanker erupts in flames after toppling power lines in Texas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/fuel-tanker-erupts-in-flames-after-toppling-power-lines-in-texas\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fuel tanker erupts in flames after toppling power lines in Texas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}